Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- How to decompose and compose numbers in a variety of ways using place value and the properties of operations to demonstrate a variety of strategies for division.
- Division can be described as an unknown factor problem.
- A variety of contextual situations can be represented with a division equation.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Use strategies based on place value to find whole number quotients and remainders.
- Use the properties of operations to find whole number quotients and remainders.
- Use arrays and area models to find whole number quotients and remainders.
- Illustrate division situations with rectangular arrays and area models.
- Write an equation to represent a division situation.
Understanding
Students understand that:
Division expressions represent
Division expressions represent
- The number of objects in each group when the total number is partitioned evenly into a given number of groups.
- The number of groups when the total number is partitioned into groups that each contain a given number.
Vocabulary
- Quotient
- Dividend
- Divisor
- Divide
- Multiply
- Multiple
- Equation
- Remainder
- Area model
- Greatest multiple
- Decompose
- Compose
- Array
- Properties of operations
- Unknown factor
- Partial quotient
